Orawan Arunrak

Orawan Arunrak b.1985, Bangkok, Thailand

Orawan Arunrak’s work is largely inspired by her everyday life. Using tools like pencils, pens, paper, but also photography and the internet, she creates works that take the forms of drawing, painting and installation. Her practice is aimed at engaging in dialogue with local inhabitants in an attempt to merge the space of art and non-art. Repeatedly crossing national, cultural and spiritual borders, Arunrak’s work has examined likeness and difference within and between varied locations in both Asia and Europe where she has lived in recent years, and based on relationships she has with these places.

Education 2007 ~Bachelor of Fine Art (Printmaking), Department Of Fine Arts, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Bangkok, Thailand

Solo Exhibition 2019 ~COUNTING, Bangkok Citycity Gallery, Thailand ~"Landscape from 1st Infantry Battalion 2nd Infantry Regiment King's Guard, Prachinburi Province to Bureau Of Royal Household, Sanarmsuepa, Bangkok, Thailand”, Bureaucracy Studies, Prilly, Switzerland 2017 ~EXIT-ENTRANCE, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin 2016 ~Zones and Verbs, Cartel, Bangkok, Thailand 2014 ~Dear Duang Daao, Duang Daao Cafe, Ikebukuro, Japan 2013 ~What Are They Doing Inside?, Speedy Grandma, Bangkok, Thailand 2008 ~Brandnew: Supernoyz, Tadu Contemporary Art, Bangkok, Thailand Selected Group Exhibition 2020 ~That Have Brought Erasers With Them, A+ Works of Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, curated by Dusadee Huntrakul 2019 ~the ceiling the walls the floor, group show with Orawan Arunrak, Paphonsak La-or,Sathit Sattarasart, Cartel rtspace, Bangkok, Thailand 2016 ~‘Public Spirits’ Curator: Meiya Cheng ARTISTS:Chen Szu Han (Taiwan), Teng Chao-Ming (Taiwan), Liu Ho Jang (Taiwan), Hsu Che Ju (Taiwan),Chia-Wei Hsu (Taiwan), Kwan Sheung Chi (Hong Kong), Chen-Yu Mao (China), Zhou Tao (China), Art Labor (Vietnam), Dinh Q. Lê (Vietnam), UuDam Tran Nguyen (Vietnam), Charles Lim (Singapore), Ho Rui An (Singapore), Agung Kurniawan (Indonesia), lifepatch (Indonesia), Vuth Lyno (Cambodia), Vandy Rattana (Cambodia), Sutthirat Supaparinya (Thailand), Orawan Arunrak (Thailand), Maung Day (Myanmar/Burma), Jen Liu (USA), Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland 2015 ~Choose to Move, with artists Tran Tuan and Ta Minh Duc. Presented by Sàn Art. Saigon Domaine, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam ~Rates of Exchange Un-Compared, curated by Roger Nelson and Brian Curtin, SA SA BASSAC, Phnom Penh, Cambodia 2014 ~Messy Sky Live Edition #02: 101 words / 101 kilobytes /Friends with Books: Art Book Fair Berlin, Cafe Moskau Berlin ~Rates of Exchange Un-Compared: Contemporary Art in Bangkok and Phnom Penh, curated by Roger Nelson and Brian Curtin, H Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand ~Experimental Video Art Exhibition, ThaiEuropean Friendship 2004–2014 (EVA project), Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand ~PAINTBOX Vol.2, GOJA Gallery Cafe, Bangkok, Thailand 2013 ~Concept Context Contestation: Art and the Collective in Southeast Asia, curated by Iola Lenzi, Agung Hujatnikajennong, Vipash Purichanont, BACC Exhibition Department, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand ~Profane Altars, Sensus luoghi per l'Arte

Contemporanea, Italy ~Villa in the Slums, Bangkok University Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand ~Resort, BACC Exhibition curated by Pichaya Aime Suphavanij, BACC Exhibition Department, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand ~A Spatial Experiment, a project by Henry Tan, curated by Brian Curtin, H Project Space, H Gallery Bangkok, Thailand ~The Performing Arts Meeting, Bo Ya tt O Su Ru, Kanagawa Arts Theatre (KATT), Yokohama, Japan 2012 ~Messy Sky, in Les Fleurs Americaines, Frac Île-de-France, le Plateau, France ~Drifting Map, in BACC experimental: Temporary Storage #01, curated by Chitti Kesemkitvatana, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand ~Experimental Video Exhibition, ThaiEuropean Friendship, National Gallery, Chao Fa Road, Bangkok, Thailand ~Speedy Grandma Gallery & Exhibition Launch, Speedy Grandma, Bangkok, Thailand ~A Part of You, A Part of Me, Sol Space, Bangkok, Thailand 2011 ~Warning, National School Beaux-Arts, Paris, France ~What do you see?, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand ~City of angels/Identity crisis, Galerie 59 rivoli,Paris, France 2009 ~ITYM WAR, Whitespace Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand 2008 ~Art no wall, Thanon Phra Athit, Bangkok, Thailand 2007 ~Experimental Video Exhibition, ThaiEuropean Friendship, The Queen Sirikit National Convertion Center, Bangkok, Thailand ~Kamibb Love Function, Café Bangrak, Bangkok, Thailand ~Fuse Showcase 6 Feminist, TK Park, Bangkok, Thailand ~Experimental Video Exhibition, ThaiEuropean Friendship, Silpakorn University, Nakhon Pathom, Bundipatanasilpa Institute, Ladkabang, Burapa University, Chiang Mai University, and King Mungkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkabang, Thailand

~No Panic Printed Exchange Art Exhibition Kmitl-Nagoya, University of Arts, La Lanta, Bangkok, Thailand ~Project Zero, The Festival of Arts and Culture by OKMD, Central World, Bangkok, Thailand 2006 ~1st Art Exhibition Mini-Art, Hof art Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand

Residencies 2016–2017 ~One Year residency in KfW Stiftung at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin 2014–2015 ~Six month residency in “Sàn Art Laboratory,” Session 6. Sàn Art, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 2014 ~Two month residency in “Pisaot Experimental Residency Program,” Sa Sa Art Projects, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Part of Rates of Exchange, Un-Compared: Contemporary Art in Bangkok and Phnom Penh, curated by Roger Nelson and Brian Curtin ~One month research residency, travelling in Sri Lanka, sponsored by anonymous Bangkok collector

Selected Curatorial Project 2013 ~Exhibition Coordinator, Cross Stitch, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand 2012 ~Assistant Curator for Hear Here Exhibition, Curator: Pichaya Suphavanij, Guest Curator: Anothai Nitibhon, Bangkok Art and Culture Center, Bangkok, Thailand Assistant Curator for Politics of ME Exhibition, Curator: Pichaya Suphavanij, Bangkok Art and Culture Center, Bangkok, Thailand ~Assistant Curator for You Are Not Alone Exhibition, Curators: ARTAIDS: Hilde Teerlink, Irene Aristizabal, BACC: Pichaya Suphavanij, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand 2011 ~Assistant Curator for Finding Abstraction Exhibition, Guest Curator: Asst. Prof. Tuksina Pipitkul, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand

Invited Talks & Workshops 2017 ~#Com( ) is a Roundtable on ART & COMMUNITY a discussion Jinjin Xu, Nhung Đinh, Orawan Arunrak with the moderator Trang ran Thu, co-curated by Do Tuong Linh & Min-hyung Kang 2015 ~Guest Speaker : CONVERSATION #006 “Orawan’s Ways” Invited by Chiang Mai Art Conversation ( CAC ), At Rampai Loft Habitat, Chiang Mai, Thailand ~Guest Speaker at King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Thailand ~Guest speaker at panel discussion, Phnom Penh and Bangkok: The Art of Cities, UnCompared, ARTnews Talks Series, Art Stage, Singapore. Other speakers: Pen Sereypagna (Cambodia), Dr Esther Rootham, (Singapore), Dr Brian Curtin (Thailand) 2014 ~Guest Lecture, Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts, Mahasarakram University, Mahasarakram Province, Thailand ~Special Instructor at King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Thailand ~Guest speaker at public symposium, Contemporary Art in Bangkok: Some Divergent Views, Bophana Audiovisual Resource Centre, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Other speakers: Dr Brian Curtin, Gridthiya Gaweewong, Tada Hengsapkul, Pinaree Sanpitak. Part of Rates of Exchange, UnCompared: Contemporary Art in Bangkok and Phnom Penh, curated by Roger Nelson and Brian Curtin ~Guest Lecturer, Visual Arts at School of Fine and Applied Arts, Bangkok University, Bangkok, Thailand 2008 ~Guest speaker for Pecha Kucha Night Vol.5, Bangkok Design Festival, Paragon, Bangkok, Thailand

Selected Press 2017 ~Orawan Arunrak: Words to Communicate, ART 21, by Roger Nelson | Dec 11 ~“What unconscious ATTIUDES and PREJUDICES does a language reveal? What cultural differences and similarities do WORDS betray?” selected by Arin Rungjang, ArtReview Asia ~“Hören und Heilen” “Listen and Healing” Text by Hajo Schiff, B24 Be Magazin, Berlin

~“What unconscious ATTIUDES and PREJUDICES does a language reveal? What cultural differences and similarities do WORDS betray?” selected by Arin Rungjang, ArtReview Asia, Summer 2017 May 19 ~KfW Stiftung – Orawan Arunrak: Exit – Entrance, e-flux 2016 ~Prōtocollum, Global Perspectives on Visual Vocabulary, page 239-241, Germany 2016 “Zones and Verbs” text by Rebecca Vickers, September 18, 2016, art4d, Thailand ~Dialogues and meditation, yext by Phatarawadee Phataranawik, August 22, 2016, The Nation 2015 ~ Orawan Arunrak: Interview with a Genius, Cross Connect Magazine, Digital World 2014 ~New Currents,” artist profile, ArtAsiaPacific, Issue 90 2013 ~What Are They Doing Inside,” Fine Art magazine, Thailand ~An American in Klong Toey,” Bangkok Post, 18 October 2013 2012 ~Artist’s pages, Messy Sky magazine ~A Part of You, A Part of Me,” in art4d: Architecture, Design, Arts magazine, Thailand

Orawan Arunrak Revealing 2020 Pencil on paper with paper case 20.9 × 14.5 × 2.2 cm (closed) 20.9 × 522 cm (opened)

Orawan Arunrak Revealing 2020 Pencil on paper with paper case 20.9 × 14.5 × 2.2 cm (closed) 20.9 × 522 cm (opened)